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In reply to the discussion: Krugman on Who is Obama trying to Impress? [View all]kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)I just don't understand it. I think had they come out the gates bolder and proposed single payer and then negotiated down to public option 2009-2010 that there would have been a stronger and more solid Democratic party.
Instead President Obama surrounded himself with a 'team of rivals' who were mostly corporatists save the tiny few half hearted progressives that he allowed to be picked off by either Rahm Emmanuel or friggin Glenn Beck.
I am tired of this. I am tired of ceding the field to the Republicans in the name of getting something done. I am tired of every one of these bargains giving them 98% of what they want for the privelage of just barely keeping the crumbs of the programs we support.
At what point does this stop. At what point do we dig in our heels and stop placating fundamentalists, randroids, Necon warmongers, and know nothings? When does our party stop being such useless wimps?